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GNOME US Event Box

2009-12-07T12:15:45Z

Hi GNOME Marketing folks,

Larry Cafiero[1] is going to be taking over the GNOME US Event Box. Please welcome Larry to the GNOME Marketing team.

Thanks to Rosanna for maintaining the GNOME Event Box for all these years!

Larry's first trip with the box will be to SCALE. If you need the box any where in the US, please let Larry know.

We're still working on a few things to add to the box:
* putting stickers in the box (Rosanna)
* working on a banner (Vinicius)
* tshirts for the volunteers (Rosanna)
* working on handouts (Paul Cutler, Denise)

We're also working on an FAQ, talking points and other info for the people that man the booth - this info will be on the wiki.

For those interested in helping out, we are also looking for someone to send out Friends of GNOME gifts. I'm hoping this can mostly be done through our Zazzle store once it's up and running but right now it means maintaining our stash of goodies (stickers, tshirts, mugs, etc) and mailing them out every couple of weeks to people that have donated to Friends of GNOME. If you are interested, let me know.

Best,

Stormy

[1] http://larrythefreesoftwareguy.wordpress.com/

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GNOME Marketing Meeting

2009-12-07T08:13:02Z

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Doodle poll for possible meeting dates and times.

Based on the results of the poll, the Marketing meeting will be Thursday, Dec. 10th at 20:00 UTC / 14:00 US CST.

The meeting will be in #marketing on GIMPnet IRC.

I'm traveling for work the next two days, but I'll try and send out an agenda on Wed. If there is anything you'd like to see on the agenda, please drop an email to the list.

Paul

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Fwd: Speaker Slots still available for Linux Expo

2009-12-07T05:35:40Z

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: SCALE Team <scale-announce@...>
Date: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Subject: Speaker Slots still available for Linux Expo
To: jeffschroeder@...

There are still some speaker slots available for SCALE 8X, but the
Call For Papers closes December 15th. If you are considering
speaking at one of the top regional Open Source conferences, we
recommend you submit your proposal REAL SOON. Submit your proposal
for consideration here:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/scale-8x-call-papers.

In other SCALE news, SCALE University will reconvene on Friday,
February 19th, prior to SCALE. The League of Professional System
Administrators (LOPSA) with conduct four half-day classes covering
various topics in greater depth than possible in a one hour sesson.
See http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/special-events/scale-u for
class details

In addition, the two perennially popular Friday sessions, Women in
Open Source and Open Source Software in Education will return to SCALE
8X, providing for a Friday filled with pre-SCALE activity!

Mark your calendars - be in Los Angeles Feb. 19-21st, 2010, for SCALE
8X, the premier regional Open Source conference!

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Re: GNOME documentation..

2009-12-06T13:05:04Z

That sounds like a neat idea. Let me see if I can put that in the GNOME wiki.

sri

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@...> wrote:

On Saturday, 2009-12-05, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> For GNOME 3 are we going to try to set up something to make programming
> GNOME easier (whatever that means), and also I'd really like to see online
> help so that it is more easier to use for beginners. It would be
> interesting to have some kind of feedback from app developers to see how
> well the apis are working for people.

Something that has been proven to be helpful at KDE is a tool [1] to generate
an initial application skeleton, e.g. build system files, usual "main"
function, example class.

It has a kind of instant satisfaction effect for beginners as they can build
and run the skeleton right away and start experiementing with whatever their
actual idea for the app is.

It is also quite nice for experienced developers when they are writing
tutorials because they don't have to describe the project initialization step
in detail and reference files that need to be modified by name instead of
generic terms like "the main class' header file".
See [2] for such a tutorial.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdesdk/kapptemplate/index.html
[2] http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Akonadi/Application

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Re: GNOME documentation..

2009-12-06T05:18:51Z

On Saturday, 2009-12-05, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> For GNOME 3 are we going to try to set up something to make programming
> GNOME easier (whatever that means), and also I'd really like to see online
> help so that it is more easier to use for beginners. It would be
> interesting to have some kind of feedback from app developers to see how
> well the apis are working for people.

Something that has been proven to be helpful at KDE is a tool [1] to generate
an initial application skeleton, e.g. build system files, usual "main"
function, example class.

It has a kind of instant satisfaction effect for beginners as they can build
and run the skeleton right away and start experiementing with whatever their
actual idea for the app is.

It is also quite nice for experienced developers when they are writing
tutorials because they don't have to describe the project initialization step
in detail and reference files that need to be modified by name instead of
generic terms like "the main class' header file".
See [2] for such a tutorial.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdesdk/kapptemplate/index.html
[2] http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Akonadi/Application

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GNOME documentation..

2009-12-05T13:10:32Z

For GNOME 3 are we going to try to set up something to make programming GNOME easier (whatever that means), and also I'd really like to see online help so that it is more easier to use for beginners. It would be interesting to have some kind of feedback from app developers to see how well the apis are working for people.

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Re: Suggestion that GNOME should better acknowledge sponsors

2009-12-05T11:30:11Z

I think it's a great idea.

Another thing that has been suggested is doing short blurbs on why companies sponsor GNOME or how they use it. We could put it in the same place.

Maybe an "About sponsors" section where each one gets a page.

Stormy

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron@...> wrote:

I was recently asked by someone in Sun to provide a list of ways
that Sun has been involved with the GNOME community. I looked on
the GNOME Wiki for any information about this, but did not really
find anything.

This got me to thinking that we could do more to acknowledge the ways
that people and organizations help the GNOME Foundation and community.

Would it make sense to have a Wiki page where we could keep track of who
sponsored various events, hackfests, and activities? And perhaps put
logos of all organizations that have played a significant role in
GNOME's history.

This seems like it would be a nice way to acknowledge the organizations
and people who support GNOME via sponsorships.

Thoughts?

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Suggestion that GNOME should better acknowledge sponsors

2009-12-04T20:01:36Z

I was recently asked by someone in Sun to provide a list of ways
that Sun has been involved with the GNOME community. I looked on
the GNOME Wiki for any information about this, but did not really
find anything.

This got me to thinking that we could do more to acknowledge the ways
that people and organizations help the GNOME Foundation and community.

Would it make sense to have a Wiki page where we could keep track of who
sponsored various events, hackfests, and activities? And perhaps put
logos of all organizations that have played a significant role in
GNOME's history.

This seems like it would be a nice way to acknowledge the organizations
and people who support GNOME via sponsorships.

Thoughts?

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Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-03T11:30:14Z

I think someone here needs to volunteer creating the web ad. Who wants to volunteer? :) I can't do anything until the end of next week.

sri

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@...> wrote:

I'd say just go for it.

behdad

On 12/03/2009 03:32 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:

I definitely think we should try it.

Stormy

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Jeremy,

Has anybody contacted you regarding this? I didn't see any
responses here so I wasn't sure if there was interest at all.

Is there interest in creating an ad for use here?

sri

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Andrews
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Hello,

I hope this mailing list is the correct place to send this offer, my
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We recently launched the Ad Bard Network aiming to connect FLOSS
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We would like to donate an advertisement to the Gnome
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The text
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Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-03T00:39:11Z

I'd say just go for it.

behdad

On 12/03/2009 03:32 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:

> I definitely think we should try it.
>
> Stormy
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri@...
> <mailto:sri@...>> wrote:
>
> Jeremy,
>
> Has anybody contacted you regarding this? I didn't see any
> responses here so I wasn't sure if there was interest at all.
>
> Is there interest in creating an ad for use here?
>
> sri
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Andrews
> <jeremy@... <mailto:jeremy@...>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I hope this mailing list is the correct place to send this offer, my
> apologies in advance if it is not.
>
> We recently launched the Ad Bard Network aiming to connect FLOSS
> relevant businesses with free software community users, influencers,
> developers and architects. The network operates under the
> guidance of
> the Free Software Foundation:
> http://www.fsf.org/news/ad-bard
>
> We would like to donate an advertisement to the Gnome
> Foundation. Tag1
> Consulting will pay the $250 fee for your advertisement, however you
> will need to provide the actual ad which must be directly
> relevant to
> free and open source software. Your ad will then be displayed on
> all Ad
> Bard member websites through the month of December, 2009. We do
> not ask
> anything in return, we are simply working to spread the word
> about our
> new advertising network and to provide relevant advertisements
> for our
> publishers:
> http://adbard.net/adbard/websites
>
> In order to move forward on this, we will need an image and text
> which
> will be used as your advertisement. The advertisement must be a jpg,
> png, or static gif measuring 120 pixels wide by 90 pixels tall.
> The text
> must be no more than 80 characters long. We will also need to know
> where to link the advertisement to.
> http://adbard.net/faq
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached
> by email
> at jeremy@... <mailto:jeremy@...>,
> or toll free at 877-875-8824 x100.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jeremy
>
> The Ad Bard Network: http://adbard.net
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Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-03T00:32:38Z

I definitely think we should try it.

Stormy

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri@...> wrote:

Jeremy,

Has anybody contacted you regarding this? I didn't see any responses here so I wasn't sure if there was interest at all.

Is there interest in creating an ad for use here?

sri

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Andrews <jeremy@...> wrote:
Hello,

I hope this mailing list is the correct place to send this offer, my
apologies in advance if it is not.

We recently launched the Ad Bard Network aiming to connect FLOSS
relevant businesses with free software community users, influencers,
developers and architects. The network operates under the guidance of
the Free Software Foundation:
http://www.fsf.org/news/ad-bard

We would like to donate an advertisement to the Gnome Foundation. Tag1
Consulting will pay the $250 fee for your advertisement, however you
will need to provide the actual ad which must be directly relevant to
free and open source software. Your ad will then be displayed on all Ad
Bard member websites through the month of December, 2009. We do not ask
anything in return, we are simply working to spread the word about our
new advertising network and to provide relevant advertisements for our
publishers:
http://adbard.net/adbard/websites

In order to move forward on this, we will need an image and text which
will be used as your advertisement. The advertisement must be a jpg,
png, or static gif measuring 120 pixels wide by 90 pixels tall. The text
must be no more than 80 characters long. We will also need to know
where to link the advertisement to.
http://adbard.net/faq

Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached by email
at jeremy@..., or toll free at 877-875-8824 x100.

Thanks,
-Jeremy

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Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-12-02T23:49:11Z

Jeremy,

Has anybody contacted you regarding this? I didn't see any responses here so I wasn't sure if there was interest at all.

Is there interest in creating an ad for use here?

sri

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Andrews <jeremy@...> wrote:

Hello,

I hope this mailing list is the correct place to send this offer, my
apologies in advance if it is not.

We recently launched the Ad Bard Network aiming to connect FLOSS
relevant businesses with free software community users, influencers,
developers and architects. The network operates under the guidance of
the Free Software Foundation:
http://www.fsf.org/news/ad-bard

We would like to donate an advertisement to the Gnome Foundation. Tag1
Consulting will pay the $250 fee for your advertisement, however you
will need to provide the actual ad which must be directly relevant to
free and open source software. Your ad will then be displayed on all Ad
Bard member websites through the month of December, 2009. We do not ask
anything in return, we are simply working to spread the word about our
new advertising network and to provide relevant advertisements for our
publishers:
http://adbard.net/adbard/websites

In order to move forward on this, we will need an image and text which
will be used as your advertisement. The advertisement must be a jpg,
png, or static gif measuring 120 pixels wide by 90 pixels tall. The text
must be no more than 80 characters long. We will also need to know
where to link the advertisement to.
http://adbard.net/faq

Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached by email
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Re: GNOME Store

2009-12-02T14:47:02Z

There's some famous study about jam's in grocery stores.

I think the option of 3 different jams resulted in the most sales. Lots of jams resulted in indecision and no sales.

One possible way around this (and I have no research on this) would be to offer tshirts, sweatshirts and mugs at the top level. Then when you drill down you can pick green, black or whatever.

Stormy

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe@...> wrote:

El mié, 02-12-2009 a las 07:53 -0600, Paul Cutler escribió:

>
> Please take a look at Zazzle and the products they offer and reply
> with ideas. Right now we'll use the graphics / logos uploaded that
> you see on the shirts.

The green t-shirt should be the now classic white equation on chalkboard
green.
Agree with others about not having more than 8 or so items.

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Re: GNOME Store

2009-12-02T13:08:49Z

El mié, 02-12-2009 a las 07:53 -0600, Paul Cutler escribió:
>
> Please take a look at Zazzle and the products they offer and reply
> with ideas. Right now we'll use the graphics / logos uploaded that
> you see on the shirts.

The green t-shirt should be the now classic white equation on chalkboard
green.
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Re: GNOME Store

2009-12-02T11:41:21Z

On 12/02/2009 02:40 PM, Dave Neary wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutler<pcutler@...> wrote:
>>> What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise
>>> should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can
>>> also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and
>>> more.
>>
>> I'd keep it relatively simple -- so no more than three or four things
>> aside from the t-shirts. (I suspect there's some study that would show
>> that choice overload results in fewer sales...) But definitely a mug,
>> hat, and sweatshirt.
>
> I agree with "Keep it simple". I would say "no more than 8 items,
> total". Including t-shirts.

Yep. The good thing about Zazzle is that they have the tshirts in a wide
variety of colors.

> I would like to see t-shirt, polo shirt, maybe sweatshirt (not
> convinced), mug, and perhaps a poster or two. I'd avoid tote bags and hats.

I'd say drop a couple "green" stuff in there. Water bottle and/or coffee mug.

behdad

> One polo shirt design, with an equivalent t-shirt design, and 2 or 3
> t-shirt only designs, and one sweatshirt design. One mug, one or two
> posters. 8 or 9 items in all.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
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Re: GNOME Store

2009-12-02T11:40:35Z

Hi,

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler@...> wrote:
>> What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise
>> should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can
>> also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and
>> more.
>
> I'd keep it relatively simple -- so no more than three or four things
> aside from the t-shirts. (I suspect there's some study that would show
> that choice overload results in fewer sales...) But definitely a mug,
> hat, and sweatshirt.

I agree with "Keep it simple". I would say "no more than 8 items,
total". Including t-shirts.

I would like to see t-shirt, polo shirt, maybe sweatshirt (not
convinced), mug, and perhaps a poster or two. I'd avoid tote bags and hats.

One polo shirt design, with an equivalent t-shirt design, and 2 or 3
t-shirt only designs, and one sweatshirt design. One mug, one or two
posters. 8 or 9 items in all.

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Re: GNOME Store

2009-12-02T11:16:36Z

Love the red tshirt!

My main comment is: please please please stay away from black and white as
main colors.

behdad

On 12/02/2009 08:53 AM, Paul Cutler wrote:

> We are getting ready to launch a GNOME Store hosted on Zazzle (the same
> company that hosts Mozilla's store).
>
> Thanks to Daniel and Andreas for doing the design work and implementing
> the CSS on the store - you can see it at http://www.zazzle.com/gnome.
> Andreas still wants to do a little more work on the logo and some areas
> where the text get cuts off, but I think it looks good and we're close
> to launching.
>
> My thought is we should launch store in the next week or so in time for
> people to buy holiday gifts if they want to.
>
> What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and
> merchandise should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt
> designs up, and can also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags,
> hats, sweatshirts and more.
>
> Please take a look at Zazzle and the products they offer and reply with
> ideas. Right now we'll use the graphics / logos uploaded that you see
> on the shirts.
>
> In a couple of months, we can do a call for artwork from the community
> to do special editions or limited runs or that kind of thing. Right now
> in the short term, I'd like to see us get the store up and running
> before we try to do to much.
>
> Please reply with your feedback and let's see if we can't get this
> launched next week!
>
> Thanks again Andreas!
>
> Paul
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Re: GNOME Store

2009-12-02T11:13:42Z

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler@...> wrote:
>
> What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise
> should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can
> also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and
> more.

I'd keep it relatively simple -- so no more than three or four things
aside from the t-shirts. (I suspect there's some study that would show
that choice overload results in fewer sales...) But definitely a mug,
hat, and sweatshirt.

Best,

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Re: Marketing team meeting

2009-12-02T07:33:29Z

Am Mittwoch, den 02.12.2009, 09:26 -0600 schrieb Paul Cutler:
> You will need to create an account on Doodle to vote in the poll.

No, you don't need an account.

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Marketing team meeting

2009-12-02T07:26:18Z

A couple weeks ago we talked about having a marketing team meeting in IRC.

I've used Doodle to create a poll on potential dates and times. Please visit the following link to vote for a time and date that works best for you: http://www.doodle.com/yg8wskgcb4ekgsqm

You will need to create an account on Doodle to vote in the poll. The Bugsquad team has used Doodle with great success.

Hopefully we'll have enough votes by the weekend to pick a date and time that works for the majority. (Timezones are tricky!)

If anyone has suggestions for a different date or time, please let me know as well.

Thanks!

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GNOME Store

2009-12-02T05:53:20Z

We are getting ready to launch a GNOME Store hosted on Zazzle (the same company that hosts Mozilla's store).

Thanks to Daniel and Andreas for doing the design work and implementing the CSS on the store - you can see it at http://www.zazzle.com/gnome. Andreas still wants to do a little more work on the logo and some areas where the text get cuts off, but I think it looks good and we're close to launching.

My thought is we should launch store in the next week or so in time for people to buy holiday gifts if they want to.

What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and more.

Please take a look at Zazzle and the products they offer and reply with ideas. Right now we'll use the graphics / logos uploaded that you see on the shirts.

In a couple of months, we can do a call for artwork from the community to do special editions or limited runs or that kind of thing. Right now in the short term, I'd like to see us get the store up and running before we try to do to much.

Please reply with your feedback and let's see if we can't get this launched next week!

Thanks again Andreas!

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Re: Braille printing for conferences

2009-12-01T13:03:28Z

We developed text (but not the layout and pictures) at the marketing hackfest.

Here's the text. (All are welcome to comment.) If anyone would like to help with design/layout, that'd be great. This is text to be used on a handout at conferences.

Text for handout:

GNOME's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone regardless of physical ability, financial ability or language with free licensing and translation in more that 180 languages, with more than fifty fully translated.

GNOME Desktop Environment

[shot of happy user at a GNOME desktop]

The GNOME Desktop Environment is a graphical user interface and full featured set of applications to help you use your computer. In addition to the user interface, the GNOME Desktop Environment provides applications including games, a web browser, an instant messaging client, multimedia applications and more.

GNOME is the default desktop environment of many Linux distributions and Unix platforms including Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSolaris. GNOME is also available for installation on other Linux distributions, such as Mandriva, and openSuSE. These operating systems include GNOME and other applications to offer a full-featured operating system that allows photo editing, spreadsheet management, playing music, surfing the web and more. In addition, you can collaborate and share with others across the internet and within your own network.

Accessibility:

[photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools]

Tools to build GNOME, Windows and Mac Applications

The GNOME Development Platform provides software developers with tools, developer documentation and libraries to build applications for both the GNOME Desktop Environment and other platforms and operating systems including Microsoft Windows (r) and Mac OS (r) X.

GNOME provides developers with project hosting, distributed version control using git, a bug tracker, mailing lists, a wiki and more. In addition to applications included in a base GNOME installation, it hosts more than 600 other supported projects, such as photo editing, music players and games.

Learn more at http://library.gnome.org/devel/

GNOME Mobile

[Collabora developer holding an N900, smiling]

GNOME Mobile advances the use, development and commercialization of GNOME components as a mobile and embedded user experience platform. It brings together industry leaders, expert consultants, key developers and the community and industry organizations they represent.

The GNOME Mobile Platform is a subset of the GNOME Platform, and uses key technologies from GNOME as well as other free software projects, including Telepathy, GConf, Gstreamer and more.

Devices using GNOME Mobile technologies include a phone and internet tablets from Nokia: One Laptop Per Child and its operating system Sugar; GPS devices; and the Vernier LabQuest, a scientific tool for students to use for data collection and experiments.

Learn more at http://www.gnome.org/mobile/

GNOME Foundation

[picture of storm]

The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation sponsors GNOME-related technical conferences, represents GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, helps create technical standards for the project and promotes the use and development of GNOME software.

The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun.

[company logos]

Become a Friend of GNOME

Don't have time to write code? Help the GNOME Foundation in other ways, such as through a monetary donation.

The GNOME Foundation's goal is to provide a free desktop for all users and you can help by becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donation provides resources for developers, software and education for end users, and promotion for GNOME worldwide. In addition, your funds support GNOME events such as hackfests, giving GNOME developers a chance to meet face to face to work on improvements in GNOME.

Become a Friend of GNOME today at http://www.gnome.org/friends

(GNOME Foundation sponsor logos)

2009/11/19 Ben Konrath <ben@...>

Hi Everyone!

We have a Braille printing expert on staff here at the University of
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handout. Is there something ready for production yet? I can ask her to
provide some input on how well it will transcribe to Braille and the
issues involved with making a Braille handout with pictures and text.

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Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network

2009-11-24T12:36:06Z

Hello,

I hope this mailing list is the correct place to send this offer, my
apologies in advance if it is not.

We recently launched the Ad Bard Network aiming to connect FLOSS
relevant businesses with free software community users, influencers,
developers and architects. The network operates under the guidance of
the Free Software Foundation:
http://www.fsf.org/news/ad-bard

We would like to donate an advertisement to the Gnome Foundation. Tag1
Consulting will pay the $250 fee for your advertisement, however you
will need to provide the actual ad which must be directly relevant to
free and open source software. Your ad will then be displayed on all Ad
Bard member websites through the month of December, 2009. We do not ask
anything in return, we are simply working to spread the word about our
new advertising network and to provide relevant advertisements for our
publishers:
http://adbard.net/adbard/websites

In order to move forward on this, we will need an image and text which
will be used as your advertisement. The advertisement must be a jpg,
png, or static gif measuring 120 pixels wide by 90 pixels tall. The text
must be no more than 80 characters long. We will also need to know
where to link the advertisement to.
http://adbard.net/faq

Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached by email
at jeremy@..., or toll free at 877-875-8824 x100.

Thanks,
-Jeremy

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Re: Help define new partnership roles with GNOME Foundation

2009-11-23T23:13:32Z

Hi,

Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
> currently GNOME offers other groups, companies or projects to join the
> Foundation as Advisory Board members. This -as you know- implies
> benefits and responsibilities for both sides: a fee to be payed, a seat
> in the advisory board calls, etc.

Non-profits on the AB don't pay a fee I think, do they?

The major advisory board issue is that if it gets too big, the overhead
of interacting with it goes up, and the value that we or any individual
member gets goes down.

> So, we -the Board- are asking for your feedback to brainstorm and try to
> define a role or model that would allow new organizations to partner
> with GNOME Foundation in a more consistent way.
>
> Here are some ideas to discuss:
> - Organizations doing humanitarian work: we definitely want to work
> with organizations that do work in the developing world. How best could
> we help them? What can we offer, can we really help them? Can they help
> us?

Put another way - what do we have to offer? Training, resources,
computers, visibility? We can think of all kinds of mutually beneficial
partnerships out there - but many NGOs are now very conscious of the
value of their brand, and sell it very expensively indeed.

One ideas that comes to mind: "Become a Friend of GNOME benefactor
before the end of December, and give an OLPC computer to a child" - 50%
of the first year's donation could go to another cause.

On learning from other NGOs, I think thaty we can't do much better than
looking at their fundraising documents and annual accounts :)

> - For non profits or non business companies: should we have a
> one-size-fits-all donation fee for joining? should we judge case by
> case?

There's a world of difference between the Mozilla Foundation and the
Eclipse Foundation and (say) Debian. One size fits all is easier, but
leaves money on the table in some sense.

> - AdBoard relationship: if we were to have a group of non AB
> organizations, should we have 'open' AB meetings where they can
> participate?

No - the ad board is the ad board. There is nothing to stop the board &
more generally the foundation working closely with (say) an education
working group. I would suggest that the education working group, if you
have one, should be essentially "universities where free software
development is taught" rather than "universities interested in
researching free software projects". To be frank, we have very little to
learn from the second.

> - Some companies that use GNOME technology might be happy to support us
> with a logo exchange: how can we engage them and what can we offer and
> request concretely?

Engage with email first - we have contacts in pretty much every GNOME
partner & redistributor. Do you have a list of companies? Do you have a
logo? Is there a special logo for the logo exchange? These are all
things that were worked on by Jeff some years ago - reviving that would
be a nice first step.

> In the same fashion, here are some ideas about what we could offer:
> - Recognition as a GNOME supporter
> - A press release
> - Presence in our website as supporters
> - Promotion space in our website (as content, not ads)
> - Consider them "sponsors" or "supporters" of certain events

- Access, cross-marketing (buy something from them, give to GNOME, buy
something from us, give to them)
- Feedback, access to our members
- Assistance in projects (perhaps the GNOME Foundation should start
doing some paid work which is related to its mission, and start charging
some people for training, consulting, etc)?
- Access to our users (certain types of partnership could be possible
with online services).

Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: Help define new partnership roles with GNOME Foundation

2009-11-23T16:36:53Z

Diego:

> currently GNOME offers other groups, companies or projects to join the
> Foundation as Advisory Board members. This -as you know- implies
> benefits and responsibilities for both sides: a fee to be payed, a seat
> in the advisory board calls, etc.

Right. The Advisory Board is a useful forum for larger organizations
that have a big stake in GNOME, for organizations whose input is
particularly important to the GNOME community, etc. It is not well
suited for smaller organizations who may simply want to show support
towards GNOME or build a closer relationship.

> So, we -the Board- are asking for your feedback to brainstorm and try to
> define a role or model that would allow new organizations to partner
> with GNOME Foundation in a more consistent way.

I think it would be appropriate for the GNOME community to provide a
menu of options for consideration. I think the GNOME Foundation could
improve community relationships and increase donations if we made it
easier for people and organizations to participate and show their
support in a variety of ways. Friends of GNOME is good, but it seems it
should be a piece of a larger puzzle.

Below you highlight two very different kinds of organizations:

- Affiliation with like-minded organizations. I would think that if
the GNOME community has a strong ethical, philosophical, or moral
connection with another organization, that we would want to support
each other without requiring significant fees or donations.

- Organizations who want to show their support of GNOME by providing
a donation. The GNOME community could provide some services or other
benefits in return for a donation. As you suggest below, link
exchanges, promotional opportunities, sponsorship of certain events,
etc. seem like good incentives to encourage organizations to donate.
I would think that this type of sponsorship would appeal to small
businesses like consulting firms that do work with GNOME-related
technologies. It would be a way for them to show support of the
GNOME community and for the GNOME community to help promote them as
well.

So, I would think we probably need two different types of programs for
these two very different kinds of organizations.

> Here are some ideas to discuss:
> - Organizations doing humanitarian work: we definitely want to work
> with organizations that do work in the developing world. How best could
> we help them? What can we offer, can we really help them? Can they help
> us?
>
> - For non profits or non business companies: should we have a
> one-size-fits-all donation fee for joining? should we judge case by
> case?

Earlier I suggest that it would be good to a "menu" of options.
However, such a menu could develop over time. It is hard to predict
what a menu should look like when we do not yet know who would consider
participating.

It probably makes sense to develop a more simple program to start and
enhance it over time. It will be more clear how to improve such a
program once we know what sorts of organizations will participate, what
their needs might be, and how we can improve the program to meet
particular needs.

> - AdBoard relationship: if we were to have a group of non AB
> organizations, should we have 'open' AB meetings where they can
> participate?

I suspect that most organizations who would participate would not have a
real interest in sitting in on advisory board meetings. If there were
such an interest, it would probably make sense to consider it on a
case-by-case basis.

However, there might be value in having 1-2 special (non-advisory board)
meetings per year where we would invite all organizations that show
their support to the GNOME community. Topics more focused on community
building would probably be more interesting to such an audience than the
usual advisory board topics.

> - Some companies that use GNOME technology might be happy to support us
> with a logo exchange: how can we engage them and what can we offer and
> request concretely?

I would say "companies that use or support GNOME technology". I would
think that this sort of program would be particularly interesting to
contractors who support GNOME, for example.

> In the same fashion, here are some ideas about what we could offer:
> - Recognition as a GNOME supporter
> - A press release
> - Presence in our website as supporters
> - Promotion space in our website (as content, not ads)

I do not see why we need to limit promotion to the web at this stage in
discussions. Perhaps there could be some space in forums like GNOME
Journal or other things we publish for such promotion?

> - Consider them "sponsors" or "supporters" of certain events

I think the main reason that the board has wanted to raise this issue
with the marketing team is twofold:

- To help brainstorm how to put together an attractive program. What
sorts of things can we realistically offer to make such a program a
success.

- Such a program will obviously create more work. Much of the
additional work seems like things that the marketing team would be
expected to help with: press releases, logo exchanges, promotional
content. So, I think we need the marketing team to help shape such
a project so that we ensure that any additional work we create for
ourselves is manageable. Perhaps we should make a plan plan that if
this sort of program is very successful that some of the donation
money is set aside to provide compensation to those who do this kind
of work.

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GNOME Journal Issue 17 - Women in Open Source released!

2009-11-23T14:35:43Z

The GNOME Journal team is pleased to announce Issue 17 of the GNOME Journal, Women In Open Source.

This is our first ever issue with a unified theme and all articles were written by women in the open source community. The idea and execution of this issue was created by the GNOME Women community.

The following articles are in this issue:

Telepathy, Empathy and Mission Control 5 in GNOME 2.28
Telepathy Overview
The Un-Scary Screwdriver
Where are they now? The Participants of the 2006 Women's Summer Outreach Program
Easy Breezy Beautiful GNOME Shell
GNOME desktop testing automation and how to use Mago
Epiphany from a - not so experienced - user perspective
An Interview with Leslie Hawthorn

Thank you to our writers, and to the GNOME Women community for the idea of this issue, including organizing the writers and article ideas.

I would also like to thank some of our new editors who help was invaluable including Sumana Harihareswara and Zonker.

Go read GNOME Journal now! http://www.gnomejournal.org

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Help define new partnership roles with GNOME Foundation

2009-11-23T13:10:03Z

Hello marketing list!

currently GNOME offers other groups, companies or projects to join the
Foundation as Advisory Board members. This -as you know- implies
benefits and responsibilities for both sides: a fee to be payed, a seat
in the advisory board calls, etc.

However, this doesn't necessarily works well for organizations or groups
that might have a different thing to offer to the Foundation by
associating, and that might be interested in something different from
the Foundation than a seat in the AB.

So, we -the Board- are asking for your feedback to brainstorm and try to
define a role or model that would allow new organizations to partner
with GNOME Foundation in a more consistent way.

Here are some ideas to discuss:
- Organizations doing humanitarian work: we definitely want to work
with organizations that do work in the developing world. How best could
we help them? What can we offer, can we really help them? Can they help
us?

- For non profits or non business companies: should we have a
one-size-fits-all donation fee for joining? should we judge case by
case?

- AdBoard relationship: if we were to have a group of non AB
organizations, should we have 'open' AB meetings where they can
participate?

- Some companies that use GNOME technology might be happy to support us
with a logo exchange: how can we engage them and what can we offer and
request concretely?

In the same fashion, here are some ideas about what we could offer:
- Recognition as a GNOME supporter
- A press release
- Presence in our website as supporters
- Promotion space in our website (as content, not ads)
- Consider them "sponsors" or "supporters" of certain events

All ideas appreciated, thanks!

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Re: Add Support GNOME Badge to Planet GNOME?

2009-11-20T15:28:56Z

Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009, à 15:14 -0600, Paul Cutler a écrit :
> My understanding is the donation ruler is planned for a specific page on the
> Friend of GNOME site / pages. (And the ruler is done thanks to Shaun and
> Vinicius at the hackfest! More to come next week, just need to finalize the
> number to plugin).

(replying late to this, apologies)

The plan is to put the ruler on most (if not all) of our websites.
Planet GNOME would definitely have it.

Vincent

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Re: [Fwd: Stolen Gnome Logo.]

2009-11-20T13:11:10Z

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:52 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Roberto
> Galoppini<roberto.galoppini@...> wrote:
> > 2009/6/24 Luis Villa <luis@...>:
> >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Andre Klapper<ak-47@...> wrote:
> >>> Another heads-up to the legal list about unappropriate usage of the
> >>> GNOME logo at http://barefootcomputer.com .
> >>>
> >>> Acting welcome.
> >>
> >> I'll shoot them a note.
> >
> > I did a trial just yesterday, no answer so far. I'll keep you updated.
>
> If you've already sent them something, I'll refrain. Keep me updated.

Roberto, did you get any response? They are still using
our logo. I think this infringement is particularly
egregious, because they're actually selling computers.
An unsuspecting shopper could easily assume they're
associated with us.

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Re: Braille printing for conferences

2009-11-19T07:50:04Z

Hi Everyone!

We have a Braille printing expert on staff here at the University of
Toronto who has offered to help me with embossing the GNOME conference
handout. Is there something ready for production yet? I can ask her to
provide some input on how well it will transcribe to Braille and the
issues involved with making a Braille handout with pictures and text.

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Re: Blog posted, memory refresh.

2009-11-17T18:40:46Z

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm@...> wrote:

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 00:04 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> Several days of traveling later, I posted Day 2's summary:
> http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/78061.html
>
>
> In the process of remembering everything. I remember having an idea
> about how we could move from GNOME to Gnome but maintain
> Google-ability. Does anyone remember what that was?

Does Google even care about case? I get the same results
for "GNOME" and "Gnome".

Eh, we came up with a moniker that would accompany our official brand; I was reminded off-list. It's not a battle we want to fight quite yet.

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Re: Blog posted, memory refresh.

2009-11-17T09:45:06Z

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 00:04 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> Several days of traveling later, I posted Day 2's summary:
> http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/78061.html
>
>
> In the process of remembering everything. I remember having an idea
> about how we could move from GNOME to Gnome but maintain
> Google-ability. Does anyone remember what that was?

Does Google even care about case? I get the same results
for "GNOME" and "Gnome".

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Re: Blog posted, memory refresh.

2009-11-17T09:06:24Z

Jason,

Thank you so much for capturing all the info. They have been really helpful and informative. I enjoyed reading them

sri

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me@...> wrote:

Several days of traveling later, I posted Day 2's summary:
http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/78061.html

In the process of remembering everything. I remember having an idea about how we could move from GNOME to Gnome but maintain Google-ability. Does anyone remember what that was?

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Re: Marketing Team IRC Meetings

2009-11-16T22:07:52Z

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy.peters@...> wrote:

I'd be interested in regular meetings. It'd be great if we could share the IRC logs too.

I'm available most days. My preference is for meetings Mon-Fri between 14:00 UTC-23:00 UTC but I'm pretty flexible.

14:00 UTC would work for me inside that time slot.

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Blog posted, memory refresh.

2009-11-16T22:04:46Z

Several days of traveling later, I posted Day 2's summary:

http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/78061.html

In the process of remembering everything. I remember having an idea about how we could move from GNOME to Gnome but maintain Google-ability. Does anyone remember what that was?

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